High school students feel effects of investor's scam

The United Jewish Appeal of Eastern Fairfield County says it won't be able to send 25 area high school students to Israel next summer because

BRIDGEPORT - The United Jewish Appeal of Eastern Fairfield County says it won't be able to send 25 area high school students to Israel next summer because it lost $50,000 of a matching grant affiliated with New York investor Bernie Madoff.

The organization was picked by the Robert Lappin Foundation to send high school students on a two-week trip in July. They would visit sites of Jewish history and culture. Now that the investor admitted to losing these funds and those of countless others, the trip has been postponed.